GN4 - Editorial Content Management System

With GN4, your business has the tools to compete in the multi-channel publishing environment in a productively simple way.

5/9/2017 9:35:55 AM

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GN4 - Editorial Content Management System

More than any time in the history of our industry, a newspaper’s bottom-line and ability to compete is impacted by the capabilities of its content management system.

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With Miles 33's GN4 Newspaper Editorial Content Management System, now in its fourth generation, your business has the tools to compete in the multi-channel publishing environment.

An editorial content management system is measured by its support of the diverse media formats and wide spectrum of publishing channels, support for geographically dispersed workforce and its total cost of ownership. With GN4, Cloud-based computing and SaaS are now a standard part of the CMS metrics.

Built upon the Content Management Services Architecture (CMSA), GN4 was designed in anticipation of today’s world rather than in reaction to it. GN4 is constructed of integral, rather than integrated, components together with a single content store for both production and archive. Content ingestion, complete with data and metadata validation, transformation and normalisation, is part of the same integral architecture.

Customer-configurable article structure means that your content is organised to support the fluid publishing environment in which you work. As new titles, websites, zones, content formats and presentation technologies come along, GN4 can be reconfigured by the customer to meet these changing needs. All of the elements of a story, no matter what medium, can be associated and then worked on together to keep the integrity of the piece. Yet, the story can be edited at the same time by multiple individuals.

Auto Publishing

In a time of shrinking newsrooms, editorial staff are often faced with an increased burden of preparing content for multiple channels. If some of the time spent doing standard pages can be automated, valuable time can be made available to grow a digital, multi-channel presence.

The process is governed by a series of rules that are fine-tuned and managed by editorial staff. The principle is simple: pre-build a series of templates, shapes, assign category labels to pages, tag individual articles and define a variety of rules that guide the auto-fitting procedure.

Creating layout options for the auto publishing process
To perform the auto pagination, some conditions must be satisfied. For example, individual articles must already exist and have elements (such as images, captions, by lines, headlines and body text) associated. The articles must also be assigned to the edition or placed in a specific folder.

The pages must also already exist in the database. In a typical workflow, these pages are created after the import of layouts from an ROP ad planning system.

When the auto pagination process starts (typically a category at a time), it collects all available pages tagged with the required category, analyzes the available space on each page (so it knows how big the task is), identifies all the articles that have been assigned to the edition, match the category, and have been flagged for use in the auto process and starts fitting content using pre-defined layouts and shapes. This is an iterative process and the more layouts and shapes that exist in the library, the better the end result will be.

The auto process is blisteringly fast and can paginate as many as 30 pages in less than a minute! When complete, pages can be scrutinized by newsroom staff prior to releasing. A report that summarizes which pages were completed and what content was used, is automatically created.

I4

The new interface that allows you to work in a browser.

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For newsrooms, tablets are also playing an increased role. Not just as a news channel, but also in the way content is captured, authored and edited. Now, with GNi4, editorial users can add a broad range of mobile devices, making them even more productive, wherever they are, using whatever tool is available.

Thanks to the HTML5 design, GNi4 can be used on practically any connected device; iOS, Android, Mac OSX, Windows 7 & 8, netbooks or Chromebooks.

When combined with other Miles 33 products such as GNXcapture for smartphones, or GNPortal for web access, the GN4 newsroom becomes a true virtual workplace. Users can be anywhere, yet collaborate with (and maintain in full contact with) all the resources the newsroom offers.

Users can access all areas in the system they have approved access to: images, video, audio, articles, wire, archives and even print edition status. Content can be searched, retrieved, opened and edited, based on user privileges.

The user’s workspace is customizable and multiple workspaces can be saved into a tabbed view. Queries and searches can be saved in a similar manner allowing users to create workspaces for accessing wire, searching archives or day-to-day writing.

GNXCapture

GNXcapture becomes a true extension of the normal newsroom functionality allowing newsroom management to include remote users in their planning. With GnXCapture a remote user is never isolated from the newsroom.

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Either working from a task, or by creating a new story, users can “package” multiple files together into a single content package. For example, when covering some event, the journalist can package together a video of the scene, a recorded interview with an eyewitness, a few pictures and even type out some comments or information. When done, the entire package can be submitted directly into the newsroom. Pre-defined workflows will accept packages submitted that way and deliver them to the right location in the GN4 content management system, complete with metadata.

GNXcapture even allows the user to search the GN4 system to retrieve content and, optionally, edit it (providing the user has all the appropriate privileges of course).

Tark4

In today's world, a Digital Asset Management System is not merely a repository of materials for research and reuse, but an active component of production and revenue generation. TARK4 takes a leadership role in Digital Asset Management by providing the features necessary of a modern DAM.

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TARK4's Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud-friendly design, content ingestion facilities, XML-based structure and publishing destination management set TARK4 apart from all other DAM products in the market place.

While TARK4 can be deployed as a stand alone Digital Asset Management solution, it is when coupled to the rest of the Tera GN4 suite that it truly shines. Sharing a single content store and user interface, TARK4's 100% XML support and configurable content structure, provide a digital publishing environment like no other in the industry.

Where was that picture used?When a picture or other asset is used, TARK4 will show every page it was used on and the other articles that were on that page.

Great for research: daisy-chain through the published pages following the coverage thread on a topic.

Using a picture again, but this time it is cropped and converted to Black & White? No worries, when the picture is next archived, TARK4 will know it is the same picture so subsequent searches will produce all the variants.